The General Manager – International, Brett Walker and myself have just this week returned from an extremely positive trip to the Middle East and Singapore.

In particular, our meetings in Saudi Arabia, which followed up on correspondence and a visit by Brett, have resulted in up to 70 full-time, undergraduate scholarships per annum being committed for Bond University by the Government.

In May 2007, Bond University’s Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine will introduce Australia’s first entry-level Doctor of Physiotherapy degree.

The two year program has been developed in response to the critical shortage of qualified practitioners identified by the Australian Physiotherapy Association and various State and Commonwealth health authorities.

It confirms the value of CCTV in detecting crime and providing good evidence of criminal acts but raises important questions about its value in preventing crime and public disorder from occurring.

The careerone website currently lists over 3000 positions vacant in the Education and Childcare field. A quick scan of the teaching vacancies reveals openings in every state, as well as opportunities for Australian-trained teachers to work in the UK, Hong Kong and other overseas destinations.

Currently studying a Master of Educational Practice, Bond University student Gabriela Pereira (pictured) has first-hand experience of the demand for teachers – she secured a position at one of the Gold Coast’s leading private high schools a good two months before completing her degree.

In this regular column we celebrate the many and varied successes of Bond University staff, students and Alumni.

This month we recognise the achievements of former Bond University Chancellor Elizabeth Nosworthy AO, Associate Professor of Marketing Dr Sudhir Kale, Associate Dean of Research and Innovation Dr Michael Rees and Professor of Law John Wade.

If you know of a good success story, please share it with us by emailing kristie_robinson@bond.edu.au.

Former Bond University Chancellor Elizabeth Nosworthy AO was this week presented with a prestigious honorary doctorate from the University of Queensland. She received a Doctor of the Laws honoris causa in recognition of her distinguished career and contribution to the community.
Ms Nosworthy served as Chancellor of Bond University during 1991 and 1992 and is believed to be the first woman to achieve such a high office at a Queensland university.
Current Bond University Chancellor Mr Trevor C Rowe AM congratulated Ms Nosworthy on her achievement, saying the honorary Doctorate reflected not only her successful professional career, but also her significant contribution to the broader community and the tertiary education sector.
"Her early involvement as the first female Chancellor of a university in Queensland helped steer Bond University to the excellent position we enjoy today of being recognised as one of the top three Australian universities, in the company of the University of New South Wales and University of Melbourne," Mr Rowe said.

Associate Professor Sudhir Kale in the School of Business delivered a keynote speech to delegates at the Third International Conference on Gaming Industry and Public Welfare in Beijing, China, on November 17, 2006. The Conference was attended by over 250 high level international delegates from the government, academia, and industry. The title of Dr. Kale's keynote address was, "Five Internal Marketing Approaches to Combat Macau's Labour Shortage." Dr. Mark Spence from the Faculty of Business also attended this high profile conference and delievered a refereed paper, "Designing an Appropriate Brand Image and Customer Gaming Experience in Macau," which he co-authored with Dr. Kale.
Dr. Kale has for some time been considered a world expert on the Marketing Aspects of Gaming. He has published over fifty papers on the marketing and management of casinos. His views on gaming and public policy have been quoted by media all over the world. He serves as a regular speaker at the Global Gaming Expo, the largest gaming forum in the world and serves as a faculty on the University of Nevada -- Reno's prestigious Execeutive Development Programme for senior gaming executives. His devotion to spreading academic knowledge on gaming has served to put Bond University in the spotlight as a high quality applied research institution.

Associate Professor Michael Rees was awarded the Paul Thistlewaite Award for the Best Paper at the 12th Australasian World Wide Web Conference held in 2006. Dr Rees presented a novel approach to ultra lightweight web-based applications to produce a Wiki as a single web page. His paper is available in the Bond University open access repository at ePublications. www.epublications.bond.edu.au

Well done to Professor John Wade of the Law Faculty who was chosen to contribute to ‘The Negotiator’s Fieldbook: The Desk Reference for the Experienced Negotiator’. Since the publication of the book, which is written primarily for the American Bar Association, positive endorsements have continued to flow in, hailing the book as "the most comprehensive coverage of negotiation practice by far" – James Wall, Curator’s Professor, School of business, University of Missouri.
Professor Wade was one of eighty authors chosen to contribute, and one of only three chosen from outside of the United States. His contributions include Crossing the Last Gap, Bargaining in the Shadow of the Tribe, Duelling Experts, and A Lasting Agreement, co-authored with Christopher Honeyman.

Bond’s Japanese language students have performed exceptionally well at the Gold Coast Annual Speech Competition, held at Griffith University last month. Tanah Sullivan won the Year 1 level Japanese category, while in the Year 2 level, Sally Andersen placed first, Linda Wang second, and Jenny Kelly third. Nicholas Cripps won the Year 3 competition.

I am delighted at this time of the year to wish all of the Academic and General Staff, Alumni, Students and our Friends of Bond best wishes for the upcoming Festive Season.

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NEVER IN HIS WILDEST DREAMS

For Bond Alumnus David Gould, a career in computer graphics and animation has taken him not just around the world, but around several worlds.

Since graduating from Bond University with a Bachelor of Computer Science in 1992, the former Palm Beach Currumbin High student has worked in Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles and New Zealand while roaming at will through the make-believe worlds of JRR Tolkein’s Isengard, King Kong’s Skull Island and Disney’s Dinosaur domain of Pangaea.

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